Good Work – Page 41 – Visual Journalism

December 1, 2010

Who Says I Don’t Like Photos of Animals?

I know I frown on them, because, really, your aunt’s cat may be cute and all, but where’s the news value in it? What does it tell us about her community? Then, of course, after watching The President’s Photographer last week, I start poking through the White House’s Flickr feed and come across this … And, you know, I start...

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November 28, 2010

Combat Camera Prep … for Rugby?

It’s a war out there, folks … we better train. (Thanks to the Associated Press’ Susan Walsh for the link.)

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November 26, 2010

The President’s Photographer on PBS

I recorded this the other night and just finished watching it … hunt around in your local listings, this National Geographic piece on Pete Souza, President Obama’s photographer, is very well done and does a nice job of explaining his role as an historian. Well worth an hour of your time.

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November 24, 2010

Even the Photo Contest Entries Are Better …

National Geographic runs an annual photo competition and Boston.com’s The Big Picture blog has plucked 47 of the entries for a recent post. And, yeah, even their readers’ are better shooters … look at the light, look at the moments. Jealous now?

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November 21, 2010

The President’s Photographer

Pete Souza is on his second tour as a presidential photographer and CBS profiled him and his work recently. The thought of the access makes many photojournalists drool, I’m sure …

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November 20, 2010

Photographing A Dollar

On American Public Radio’s Market Place last night, they did a story on photographer Jonathan Blaustein who has been photographing one dollar’s worth of food at a time. It’s an interesting project, not so much for its technical excellence or sophistication but as a visual documentation on what food costs. On his site, Blaustein has a fuller set of images...

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November 19, 2010

Surfing the Snake River

Rich Addicks, late of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sent along a link to one of his latest films and, no, you’re not reading that headline wrong. Called River Riders, it’s a short documentary on people who surf the Snake River in Wyoming. Visually, it is really cool. The way the action flows into the opening sequence and then frames the title...

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November 17, 2010

Mecca, Now

Boston.com’s The Big Picture blog has put together a collection of images from the start of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. If you look closely you can match some of the area up against those made by Christiann Snouck Hurgronje 125 years ago. It’s pretty cool.

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November 15, 2010

Is This the First Multimedia Story Ever?

CNN.com has a story up about Christiann Snouck Hurgronje, a Dutch adventurer, scholar and possible spy, who visited Mecca in 1885, carting a camera and an Edison wax cylinder recorder. Which is pretty forward thinking …

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November 14, 2010

FotoWeek DC

Sharing photos in the nation’s capital, via CNN.com …

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Who Says I Don’t Like Photos of Animals?

Combat Camera Prep … for Rugby?

The President’s Photographer on PBS

Even the Photo Contest Entries Are Better …

The President’s Photographer

Photographing A Dollar

Surfing the Snake River

Mecca, Now

Is This the First Multimedia Story Ever?

FotoWeek DC